This focus is understandable: voting rights have been a defining fault line of political conflict in the United States ever since the constitutional framers made the fateful decision not to establish an affirmative right to vote, instead leaving each state to determine the "times, places, and manner" of elections. In fact, many analysts believe the 2024 election will be decided not by committed voters who are still making up their minds about how to vote, but by Americans who are still making up their minds about whether to vote at all.